Social Data Science
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  • Past Year Sites
  1. Past Year Sites
  • Summarizing Distributions
    • Empirical Questions
    • Using Data
    • Distributions and Summaries
    • Population sampling
    • Confidence Intervals
  • Models for Subgroup Summaries
    • Subgroup Summaries by Prediction
    • Forests
    • Data-driven selection of an estimator
    • Are complex models better?
  • Causal Inference under Measured Confounding
    • Defining causal effects
    • Exchangeability
    • Directed Acyclic Graphs
    • Models for causal inference
    • Continuous treatments
  • Causal Inference with Unmeasured Confounding
    • Difference in difference
    • Regression discontinuity
    • Instrumental variables
  • Software and Coding
    • Software Prerequisites
    • Visualization
    • Data transformation

Past Year Sites

The material on this site draws on the websites of several past courses that I have taught.

  • UCLA SOC 114 (Winter 2025)
  • Cornell INFO 3370 (Spring 2024) (Spring 2023)
  • Cornell INFO 3900 (Fall 2023)
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